Bug Description

I recently aquired a very recent wacom model, the bamboo pen & touch, it allows to control the cursor by a tactil and pen input, but ubuntu fails to recognize any of the inputs

I read in some forum that the gesture recognition was far from being developed, I am not that desperate for gesture and tactil input, but I'd really like the pen input to work like any other wacom tablet

The tablet led turns red when the pen comes close to the surface the same way in windows does, and shine brighter when a finger touchs it

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, but if the other recent models like intuos4 work in karmic with the new wacom support I think this could actually be some kind of conflict between the two inputs

OK .. turns out X does not crash if I enable the device while running in seamless mode.

Windows finds the tablet as soon as I activate USB on the Wacom, the Wacom drivers also find the tablet and
is able to configure it.

stylus/pressure/eraser and side buttons works but with some quirks .. the drawing is really lagging and the touch feature is either really hard to use or not working properly .. the only gesture I manage to do is zoom in / zoom out and some scrolling..

and then I get the Wacom CTH-460 to work. It works quite good after installing it! But, then after a few day's/weeks the pad stops working and I have to follow the ubuntuforums instructions again and everything is fine.

I realise it might have to do with kernel updates, but I remember testing the pad after the most recent update to .20

I don't use the pad on a daily basis, only for some retoutching, but I never take it out of its USB port.

I have the simpler model (without Touch, CTL 640), and it doesn't work in Lucid either. Thats because you need the newest kernel module from linuxwacom.sf.net If you install that (so just wacom.ko, nothing else) it will work fine in Lucid.

Please note that I am using ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 and the bug is still present.
I have a Wacom Pen 6 Touch (CTH-461).
When I plug in, I see in the dmesg only:
[16936.330110] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[16936.561394] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

From related bug #568064: I compilled and installed manually the current stable driver from linuxwacom succesfuly, but it is not the point. Each time the kernel will be updated, will be required to reinstall the wacom module manually, and this is a pain that will stay three long years (This is an LTS). Implementing a solution based on DKMS, is very complex for the user, and at this point the ease of use of Ubuntu is going to heck. I think for the welfare of users and the strength of Ubuntu, this should be an issue to resolve soon.

Nothe the differences:
-- The compilation is executed in the linuxwacom-0.8.6 directory instead of src/2.6.30/
-- In this approach are required to copy de fdi file and the wacom_drv.so as the wacom.ko file

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 477105

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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